Villages, in the United States and around the world orphaned children, they cried for their parents in 1918. People of all cultures struggled with the same terrible threat. And within a matter of months, as many as 50 million would be did. In the United States, the death toll reached 675,000. Five times the number of u. S. Soldiers killed in world war i. What was that deadly threat . There is many many people that have died, we had just come from a few years before, from mexico. Where we were living, on account of the revolution. The mexican revolution. I was about ten years old, and i was the oldest and my Four Brothers and sisters, in the family only my dad and my sister, did not get it. My two brothers, were in one room sick, i was sick in the other bedroom with my mother. My poor dad and sister, they had to be our attendance, and do what they can do for us. And it gave you such high fever, and i mother told me that i thought her black hair, was a cat. And i was afraid of it. It was the delirium from the high fever. People were left very weak, on account of that high fever. And all the schools, Public Places and every place was closed. I guess nearly two or three weeks. I was eight years old, and we live near medalleds mother, and she and her daughter and two grandchildren, were living close to us, and when they got the flu and got sick, my parents we just moved in with them to her my mother could nurse all the patients and take care of them. At that time my mother was 25 years old, and she had three children. And she was expecting, another baby in may. And this was in february, and she had taken care of eight patients at one time very sick patients with the flu. With no convenience, no modern facilities whatsoever. And mueller had to get the word had to get the wood, to heat the house and keep all those fires going. Plus do the nursing care, with patients. My fathers name is tell us. Tell us good morning that was his indian name, and he was working in tennessee for dupont company. Every time anybody, was sick he would always bring up the story about how he got sick while he was in tennessee and how a lot of people from the village, that had gone were brought back sick. They were brought back in a train he said some of them had passed away in tennessee and in 1918 my mother was like just 11 years old, but she remembers that they lived on the south side of the village and she remembers the church bell would ring every day, that there is a certain bell for the death, and she said she remembers as a little girl how awful it sounded. In 1918, as now most people of the disease that could lead to death. We suffer flu season every year. And this flu season usually picks between january in the end of march. We usually get a runny nose, sometimes low grade fever, and just feeling a little wiped out. Influenza on the other hand, is much more pronounced in that people would generally have a high grade fever, and absolutely no energy whatsoever, and muscle aches and headaches fairly dry cough and the you know the common cold you can feel bad for a couple days but after for five days you start to feel yourself again